Reviews: McLachlan, J. A.

J.
A. McLachlan is the author of a short story collection,
CONNECTIONS
(Pandora Press) and two College texts on Professional Ethics
(Pearson-Prentice Hall). But science fiction is her first love, a
genre she’s been reading all her life.
Walls
of Wind
was her first published SF novel. She has two young adult science
fiction novels,
The
Occasional Diamond Thief
and The
Salarian Desert Game
(EDGESF&F Publishing).

2015’s
The Occasional Diamond Thief is the first book in J. A. McLachlan’s
The
Unintentional Adventures of Kia and Agatha
series.

Her
father’s death after a long illness gives Akhié
Ugiagbe the chance to escape her hostile family. Adopting a new
name—Kia—she reinvents herself as a linguistics student far from home.

Of
course, her family didn’t see fit to provide for her continuing
education. Kia has to do that herself, with one little jewel theft
that she assumes will have no repercussions for her future. Ha!